New Models

Berkeley-based writer and co-host of the wildly popular anti-corruption podcast TrueAnon, LIZ FRANCZAK joins New Models for a cathartic reflection on pandemic politics and the pros, cons, and probability of popular revolt. This conversation was recorded March 25th. FOR MORE: https://twitter.com/liz_franczak https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-century-of-spin-franczak

TopSoil is New Models' informal talk-core cast. For the full episode (plus the 31 eps before it) and to join our Discord: patreon.com/newmodels ----- Geographer STEPHANIE WAKEFIELD, trend forecaster SEAN MONAHAN, dad-artist-grocery store insider JEAN-LUC VILA, writer NATASHA STAGG, and deep systems researcher CADE check in with the NEW MODELS crew, reporting from their respective Corona quars. ALSO: DAN imagines NEAR-FUTURE USA as OLIGARCHY with CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS, LILNET introduces the other Q-Anon, and CARLY asks what everyone would stock up on during these SEEMING LAST MOMENTS of ABUNDANCE. PLUS: intro to NM Discord's calendar & irl-metaverse. AND: @LILINTERNET's RADIO PLAY featuring an on the ground report from a NEWLY RE-OPENED AMERICA's first music festival. / Recorded: Monday, 23 March 2020

Artist and writer MARIAM GHANI and Editorial Director of Eyebeam, MARISA MAZRIA KATZ speak to New Models about Ghani's new work Dis-Ease, a forthcoming essay-film that considers how the metaphors we use to speak about illness and contagion affect the ways in which we prepare and respond to epidemics and treat those afflicted and affected by them. This podcast is part of New Models' series for TENTACULAR (Extremophilia edition), a "festival of critical technologies & digital adventures" curated by Julia Kaganskiy and José Luis de Vicente for Matadero Madrid, 2019. FOR MORE Dis-Ease (site): https://www.mariamghani.com/work/1426 Dis-Ease (vid. excerpt): https://vimeo.com/373883845 https://www.eyebeam.org/eyebeam-center-for-the-future-of-journalism/ https://tentacular.es/en/about/ Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited and screened broadly, including at New York's Guggenheim Museum, MoMa, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Documenta 13 (Kabul and Kassel), among other venues. Her first feature-length film,"What We Left Unfinished," premiered at the 2019 Berlinale and is currently on its festival run. Marisa Mazria-Katz is a NY-based journalist/editor. Her essays on art and culture have appeared in media outlets such as New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, and Vogue. Marisa is the Editorial Director of Eyebeam, where she oversees the newly launched Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism.

ALEX KAZEMI is an online trickster and magick-practicing provocateur. When this episode was pre-released to our Discord community in February, it fomented vidid debate among the hard materialists, gnostic scholars, and woo-woo sympathizers. On this episode, we talk Super Super magazine, new sefirots, and Marilyn Manson's God complex, all to ask: Can magick be a framework for today's attention economy? Alex Kazemi's book "Pop Magick" was published in February by Permuted Press, with an introduction by Rose McGowan. Alex Kazemi, Pop Magick: A Simple Guide to Bending Your Reality (Permuted Press, 2020) https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1682618803 For more: www.alexkazemi.com fanmail [at] alexkazemi.com

Featuring Washington D.C.-based writer/editor MIKE CRUMPLAR, whose work focuses on radicalization in America and the systemic drivers of incel culture. This January, Mike published the first segment of a project that looks at the autobiographical writings of Isla Vista spree shooter Elliot Rodger. His Framework takes Elliot not as author, but as subject—a protagonist trapped in his own novel as an unwitting byproduct of American late-capitalism. For more: https://twitter.com/mcrumps Key texts: https://mcrumps.com/2020/01/07/blissful-beginnings-elliot-rodgers-sexual-awakening/ & https://jacobitemag.com/2018/05/21/the-aeneid-for-incels/

With trading mania having gone mainstream this winter, the market has come to remote control the emotions of millions in lockdown. LIL INTERNET reflects on this phenomenon here, in a monologue excerpted from NM TopSoil Ep 57, "Capital Insurrection," considering the wild extremes of personal sensitivity today from WallStreetBets to woke culture. Subscribe here https://patreon.com/newmodels for more LIL INTERNET radio plays, all 57+ episodes of NM Topsoil, and advance access to the New Models podcast.

TopSoil is New Models' informal talk-core cast, which we create specifically for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: https://patreon.com/newmodels ----- Norwegian artist BJARNE MELGAARD speaks to New Models about CULTURAL PRODUCTION, DESIRE, and the CHANGING THRESHOLDS of VICTIMHOOD and TRANSGRESSION. Also: BJARNE's ANTIVIVISECTION '80s, CARLY as KERN MODEL, and whether CRYSTAL METH is still the number one DRUG of CHOICE. Plus: PORNHUB, CHIHUAHUAS, DRUGS, ANTINATALISM, MILITANT CLIMATE ACTIVISM, ANDREA DWORKEN, EMPATHY. https://bjarnemelgaard.com https://www.instagram.com/bjarnemelgaard/ https://acuteart.com/artist/bjarne-melgaard/

The Berlin-based British artist https://soundcloud.com/stevenwarwick (ex-Heatsick)talks to New Models about the release of his 2019 album "MOI" (https://soundcloud.com/pan_hq). For full post (incl. video by Dacio Pinheiro): https://newmodels.io/proprietary/new-models-greenroom-steven-warwick-moi Note: this is the first episode of New Models GREENROOM, a series of short interviews featuring people in the NM sphere discussing their new and forthcoming work.

Featuring New York-based writer NATASHA STAGG who, on the occasion of her new book "Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019" (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents), speaks to us about the myths and metadata of NYC's culture sector and the protocol for creative production in the 2010s. (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) For more: https://natashastagg.com/ https://twitter.com/natasha_stagg https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sleeveless

Featuring LA-based musician and scholar TOM KRELL (aka @howtodresswell) who talks with us about the aesthetics of climate activism, the roll of the critic today, music as carrier signal for identity, the threshold for authenticity, the value of negativity, extraction and power -- let's just say it's a rich and sweeping conversation that offers tools for thinking through some of the big questions of our day and insight into the mind behind one of the past year's best albums "The Anteroom" (https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco). For more: https://twitter.com/HowToDressWell https://thehyv.shop/collections/how-to-dress-well https://www.dominomusic.com/artists/how-to-dress-well